Alvecia wrote:Kernen wrote:
It isn't. Police will use what you say against you, and will attempt to mislead you, trick you, and put words into your mouth. If the police are talking to you, it’s because they suspect you have committed a crime. If they have detained you, it’s because they already have enough evidence to arrest you and they want to see if you will admit it and thus, give them an even stronger case against you. If they have evidence to arrest you for a crime, they will. If they don’t, they won’t. It’s as simple as that. Talking to them or not talking to them won’t make a difference! No one has ever “talked his way out of” an arrest. If the police have enough evidence to make an arrest, they will.
If you deny that you committed the crime, they will not believe you. They already have evidence suggesting that you committed the crime. They’ll assume you’re just doing what every criminal does in denying the offense. It will not prevent you from getting arrested. This is completely contrary to popular belief.
And even if you’re innocent, an innocent person can still make some assumption about a fact or state some detail about the case they overheard on the way to the police station, and the police will assume that they only way the suspect could have known that fact or that detail was if he was, in fact, guilty.
Example: Suppose a police officer is questioning a suspect about a homicide. He says that the victim died in a gangland style execution. The suspect makes the statement “I don’t know who killed the victim. I’ve never owned a gun in my life. I don’t even like guns.” On it’s face, there’s nothing incriminating about that statement. But suppose at trial, the prosecutor asks the police officer if anything about that statement surprised him. The police officer answers “Yes, it surprised me when the suspect mentioned a gun, because I had never mentioned a gun before that. I merely told him that I was investigating a homicide.”
When the officer said there has been a homicide, the suspect may have simply assumed that the killing was done with a gun. Or the suspect may have overheard in the police station some other officer talk about the fact that it was a shooting. But if the officer taking the statement had never mentioned a gun or a shooting, and the suspect makes the statement that he had never owned a gun, you give the prosecution the opportunity to create some high drama and has made a statement about a gun because he is, in fact, the murderer. And as the murderer, he knew that a gun was used.
This is just one of many, many reasons why talking to the police will never help you. Even if you're guilty and want to confess, talking to the police won't help you.
My bad. It's narrow minded and presumptuous
Ah, yes. Because throwing around personal jabs is defeating points backed up by criminal practice. Such success. Many wow.
Ethel mermania wrote:That's if you are suspected of a crime, reporting one is a different matter
Reporting a crime for which you are not the victim is just a really good way attract suspicion. Even then, the police will show up hours later and take notes. You're better off calling your insurance company if you're the victim of a crime than the police.